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What a pleasure it was,
seeing the light in your eyes.
To hold and caress you,
then to hear your sighs.

What happened,
to upset our happy day,
for it disappeared
and went away.

I am heart broken
and this way I'll stay,
until the grief passes
and I've learned to pray.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Can the Moon and a mountain really cast similar shadows? Yes, but the division between light and dark does not have to be aligned. Pictured, a quarter moon was captured above the mountain Grivola in Italy in early October of 2022. The Sun is to the right of the featured picturesque landscape, illuminating the right side of the Moon in a similar way that it illuminates the right side of the mountain. This lunar phase is called "quarter" because the lit fraction visible from Earth is one quarter of the entire lunar surface. Digital post-processing of this single exposure gave both gigantic objects more prominence. Capturing the terminator of this quarter moon in close alignment with nearly vertical mountain ridge required careful timing because the Earth rotates once a day.

Photo by Enzo Massa Micon

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles. Nearly a meter of new and unexpected snow fell over two days in a storm that started 86 years ago this week. As snow fell and gale-force winds piled snow to surreal heights, many roads became not only impassable but unplowable; people became stranded, cars, school buses and a train became mired, and even a dangerous fire raged. Two people were killed and some students were forced to spend several consecutive days at school. The featured image was taken by a local resident soon after the storm. Although all of this snow eventually melted, repeated snow storms like this help build lasting glaciers in snowy regions of our planet Earth.

I miss you so.
I do every day.
Deep is my sorrow,
since you went away.

What a price to pay for
what sorrow will bring,
my heart will no longer sing.

Thoughts of redemption,
from deepest memory,
crawls from the darkened
corners, which I cannot see.

What must I do to remain,
true to the vows I made,
so many years ago,
when you were my lovely maid?

I know not where I'm going.
I remember where I've been.
There will be no tomorrows,
in the land of in between.

A land of in between of
the yesterday's, mis-spent,
won't allow me to quit now,
as I will never relent.

In the darkest corner, of this aging brain,
where words lay unused, you will find,
a lovely creature, who controls my thoughts.
Hopefully, the words are always kind.

Emotions I have now, are influenced
by an internal disappointment, not a rage.
No matter how I look at this,
if it's not any better, than turn the page.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The December 28 night launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida marked the fifth launch for the rocket's reusable side boosters. About 2 minutes 20 seconds into the flight, the two side boosters separated from the rocket's core stage. Starting just after booster separation, this three minute long exposure captures the pair's remarkable boostback burns, maneuvers executed prior to their return to landing zones on planet Earth. While no attempt was made to recover the Falcon Heavy's core stage, both side boosters landed successfully and can be flown again. The four previous flights for these side boosters included last October's launch of NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche mission. Their next planned flight is on the Europa Clipper mission scheduled for launch in October 2024.

Photo by Dennis Huff